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Didn't work for me. What a waste of time. And this function have been on VLC for a while now, so I don't see why it is useful? For instance you stop playing a song at a point. The next time you use the app and play the same file it will give you a suggestion to play right at the time you left the previous time. So what's the difference with this extension. I don't understand? ^^

I'm happy to inform users that this feature has been added to the latest nightlies of VLC 2.2.0-rc2. I have tested it on the Intel-based Mac version and it works quite well, media will resume where you left it off. However, since it's still beta, it's not 100%. It won't resume if you only watched the first few seconds of a video and it won't resume if you were on the last few seconds of a video. Please confirm.

Ran a 2 hour film with the current position being recorded right to the very end.
Ran the film again with Remember position turned off.
Activated the extension and the film jumped to the end of the film and finished.

The record was not deleted in the pos.txt file when the position recording was active and the film had reached the end.

Loaded VLC
Ticked Resume Position
Loaded media file - went directly to remembered position
Played for 5 minutes
Loaded a second media file
Loaded interface Debug Logging
Error occurring every 10 seconds = lastsavepos not calculated due to being nil value, line 97.

Just a question. Would it be possible to make it enabled by default?
So when you play a file, it remembers the position and perhaps when you play the same file again, it could as whether you want to play from beginning or from the last position?

Running vlc 2.1.4 win7/64 bit. I can install the extension and "remember position" appears in my "view" menu, but the menu item is inoperative. No check mark appears when I select it. The debug console says:

After the same problems as resthavener had with getting it into a file. I figured out how to work it. After checking "remember position" under "view" you can quit vlc. Then when you restart the video again go back and check "remember position" again it will jump to where you left off. A little clunky to use but it does work for me. Thanks.

Ditto. I get it to appear in File->Extensions->Remember Position, but selecting it does nothing. I double-checked permissions on /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/extensions but all seems OK. Even changed the .lua to 777. No go.